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Beginning with the families, the government giving psychologists to help them there. of course, the retrieval of the bodies back to russia here. 214 of the 224 people onboard were russian. this is being felt deeply here. and this is a small expression of it so far, poppy. >> nic robertson for us tonight, thank you very much. more now from our aviation panel. boeing 777 captain is with me. thank you, gentlemen, both for being here. i want to get to you first. the civilian aviation minister saying...

>> reporter: yeah. it is a mountainous region. this morning we were hearing this the plane had crashed in the mountains from the authorities but when a bit more information came out we now have the pictures that show it was one of the planes that is adjacent to the mountains. this is a five-mile search area. so there is a lot to -- a lot of ground to cover. its night here. so that will make it even more difficult. but the northern sinai has had problems with an insurgency. we havent heard if tha...

777 and when it did, it shattered all of that fragments, all of that shrapnel, into the cockpit and instantly killed the cockpit crew. then the rest of the passengers and crew members on board were probably rendered unconscious or died very quickly after that. heres the chairman of the dutch investigation board just a short time ago this morning. >> as a result of the detonation, the forward part of the airplane was torn off. the airplane broke up in the air. the wreckage came down in an area of...

Reports say the missile originated from eastern ukraine. it did not conclude who fired it. investigators say all 298 people on board were killed or lost consciousness as soon as the missile hit. about three feet from the cockpit. want to dig deeper into this report. tom costello joining us now. this is a damning confirmation but what else did we learn? >> reporter: the russians take issue with this, saying the dutch investigation was biased, that the conclusions are wrong. the analysts say the r...

Missile. they released the animation and it is a russian made missile firing and exploding next to the cockpit of the 777. according to them it literally showered the plane and then its unique to a russian made book missile and they found it in the crew and especially in the pilot and the chairman of the dutch spoke to reporters yesterday morning. >> as a result of the defamation and the forward part was torn. the wreckage came down in an area of about 50 kilometers in the eastern part of ukrain...

Pro-russia rebels. tom costello covers aviation for us. tom, what more are we learning about this final report released today? >> it really was comprehensive and it is stunning. this videotape the dutch released today. this is a time lapse showing how they put this plane back together again. a boeing 777 that they put back together again at a military hangar in the netherlands. look at the detailed work that they did methodically, piece by piece, putting this plane back together again. that help...

Homeless, the immigrants, stories of the families, hes woven them together into one great narrative. as we watch that plane take off, we watch that narrative project into a great whole narrative of human history. >> if you look at his ititinera throughout the week, certainly a story well look at and say, i see the connections. vice president joe biden again now saying good-bye to pope francis. sat across the table today and we have had guests, analysts, those reflecting on pope francis trip here...

English translation for you here on msnbc. if youre just joining us again, we do expect there also to be a meeting with 30 corrections officers there, as well. if you look on the small stage there on the upper right hasnr part ever your screen, that chair was built by the inmates. thats the chair pope francis will sit in as he is giving his remarks. that chair well see whether or not makes it back into that 777. that american airlines 777. theres a lot of space in it, to get back to rome where b...

Some consoling words on that, he would probably again. i think when you deal in a private moment with a great religious figure, its more of your soul and your being that you want to say something or make that connection with. i say that as a person of faith who understands that these moments dont happen very often. >> again, vice president biden is the first roman catholic vice president. there he is in the room there, along with his wife, as well, dr. jill biden. this is the hangar where we do ...

Plane and then taking off. again, if youre just joining us here at the top of the hour, 7:00 p.m. eastern local time in philadelphia. pope francis just finishing thanks to the 400 clearly just a representation of those who made the world meeting of families happen there in philadelphia. on this sunday, september 27th, the day of worship and now, he is moving off to another location to have some short meetings, we understand, before he then gets into that american airlines 777 and then moves forw...